HYDRA HEAD RECORDS, 2011 // LP / BUY: VINYL / CD Prurient's Bermuda Drain LP dropped out of nowhere and it blew my mind instantly. I picked it up mainly because I was curious about the small sticker on the sleeve: "LISTEN ON HEADPHONES AT NIGHT WHILE DRIVING THROUGH TUNNELS IN EUROPE." I mean, dude, I had to check it out! Prurient is the stage and production alias of Dominick Fernow (aka Vatican Shadow ) who also runs the New York-based Hospital Productions label. [...]
. . . When did you start working at Hydra Head? If memory serves, mid-late 1998. I met Aaron [Turner, Hydra Head co-owner, Isis frontman] a few years before that, when he was running Hydra Head as a small distro/label and playing in Unionsuit (whom I was obssssessed with. I must've listened to that cassette 400 times back in the day). Botch's American Nervoso and Drowningman's Busy Signal at the Suicide Hotline were just coming out. That was a pretty incredible time for us. Sooooo much [...]
It's been just a little over a year since Isis called it quits, but Aaron Turner has managed to keep busy (which isn't out of the ordinary): he put out an album with Mamiffer (the band he's in with his wife, Faith Coloccia) as well as starting up a new record label, SIGE. He's also [...]
News It's been just a little over a year since Isis called it quits, but Aaron Turner has managed to keep busy (which isn't out of the ordinary): he put out an album with Mamiffer (the band he's in with his wife, Faith Coloccia) as well as starting up a new record label, SIGE. He's also [...]
Some of you are going to love this album. Some of you are going to hate this album. Judging by the extremely small (and thus inaccurate) sample size of opinions I have gathered over the past couple of weeks, middle ground is nonexistent, or at the very least undiscovered by yours truly. For those expecting [...]
GRIDLINK - Orphan by Hydra Head Records GRIDLINK - 3 Miles Below Sea Level by Hydra Head Records It's not often that I'm in a grindcore mood, so why not show off a band that took their sweet time growing on me: Gridlink. I've been conscious of the band's latest LP, Orphan , for a few months now. It's twelve tracks that collectively span, yep, twelve freaking minutes. The tracks I've been sampling [...]
Hydra Head, 2011 Though modern rock, by design, employs at least a moderate amount of teamwork between band members, true democracy in the post-2000 indie rock world tends to conspicuously defy the norm. In actual practice, you're much more likely to hear a band claim a collaborative spirit (The Strokes' most recent piecemeal effort, Angles , for instance) than you are to actually hear the sounds of multiple congruent songwriters so intrinsically-linked that every piece of music demands equal input from each party. That's part of the reason White Silence , a [...]
CAVE IN secretly recorded a new album last year and didn't tell anyone about it until about a week ago, when news of its existence leaked onto Amazon -- catching even the band's label,... Support indie media! Read the rest at thephoenix.com . . .
FEATURING MEMBERS OF ISIS, MUNICIPAL WASTE, ELUVEITIE, WORMROT, LAST CHANCE TO REASON, ZAPPA PLAYS ZAPPA, GOD DETHRONED, OWEN HART, NIGHTFALL, HORSEBACK, AND OCTOBER TIDE For 2010, we decided to do something special as part of our regular end-of-year festivities here at MetalSucks - namely, ask musicians from across the vast spectrum of the metalsphere (or, [...]
Pyramids with Nadja - "Another War" MP3/download I picked this 12-inch up the other day because it was limited (I got #44 out of 300) and, mainly, because Pyramids were involved. I haven't even heard anything Pyramids have done since their self-titled full length (which I reviewed HERE and love-loved) but man, I was eating [...]
Pale Sketcher - "Plans that Fade" MP3/download I'll admit I didn't find the latest Jesu EP to be appealing at ALL. The vocals especially left me with a dull, old-milk taste on my mouth. Well, here's another project of Justin Broadrick's (also of Techno Animal and Godflesh), and it's a lot better than the aforementioned [...]
CLICK HERE to grab yourself a copy of Phoning It In , the free sampler offered from Hydra Head Records ! The track list can be found after the jump. -Mangtooth ---------------- :: Track List :: Oxbow + Philippe Thiphaine - "Coalking" From Songs for the French (5:46) Daughters - "The First Supper" From "s/t" (3:18) Bohren & Der Club Of Gore - "Unkerich" From Dolores (5:31) [...]
File this under heartbreaking. Miami rockers Torche had all their gear stolen from their van last Friday, May 14, while they were on tour supporting Coheed and Cambria at Chicago's Congress Theatre . The Chicagoist reports that the theft occured while Torche's van was parked in front of Geothe Elementary School, located at 2236 North Rockwell St., between 1:30 and 4:30 a.m. As a result of the equipment theft, Torche has to cancel their Saturday, May 15, gig in [...]
stumbed onto this rather squalid (not meant pejoratively) unnofficial video for the oxbow tour 123 that hydrahead put out. i dig the use of third generation video. something i've done myself with photo's. most recently here . i like the aesthetics and philosophy behind it, the xerography, the lo-fidelity, the mirror upon mirror voyeurism... be warned, this does feature a severed cock and balls. hydra head / [...]
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The closet-cleaning continues! I got this CD in the mail god-knows-when, and ignored it for months for god-knows-why. Now that I have Spawning the Nephilim in my lap I'm glad I took the plunge. "Nephilim" supposedly means "those who cause others to fall" in Hebrew. I'm not sure how that pertains to the molten music wherein; perhaps Lord Mantis have decided to reproduce -- or clone -- themselves so that they may form a metal militia. Thing [...]
Track: Xasthur- "Achieve Emptiness Part II" (5)For more on Xasthur, go to xasthur.mercurous.net.
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In case you haven't already noticed we're super-stoked that Cave In are back together and once again creating new music. Their new single "Retina Sees Rewind" is currently available on iTunes with the rest of the record Planets of Old coming on 123 on July 28th. Oh hey guess what? The entire record is now [...]
christ this is a bit of a creepy record. so in recognition this wordspew is dedicated to the crazed bastard(s) (can there really be more than one of you sick enough to want these jpegs?) searching for hazel blears upskirt pictures… righty. new album , or rather a cd reissue, from scott conners' one man (well [...]
Above you will find some video of SLAYER in the studio recording their new, not-yet-titled album. Remember that time we interviewed Tom Araya. CHIMAIRA are going all Web 2.0 with their latest video, "Destroy and Dominate" giving fans access to the raw files and holding a video remix contest. All you budding music video directors can [...]
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